Samuel Drey, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, provides a quick reference guide and an Excel-based tool that allows you to build monitoring consoles using HTML without being a scripting star.  He calls it the Document-Tool-Walkthrough (DTW).

This is a new concept document/tool built using Excel that can help you to build System Monitor consoles that are centrally stored to monitor your servers.  You can build as many consoles as you want using this tool, with each console being responsible for monitoring a specific area of your IT infrastructure (e.g. one for Exchange databases, another for disk latencies, another for core resources of DC servers, etc.), You can store these consoles in a central place where administrators will be able to open them and monitor (or troubleshoot) their servers.  People using this tool won’t need any knowledge about scripting (or at least very little) as the code is generated automatically through the Excel tabs.  Check it out at:  http://www.opsvault.com/how-to-build-a-simple-and-efficient-windows-monitoring-solution-dtw/.